Books, Arts & Manners: Once More, with Panache

AMERICAN Ballet Theatre is back!

Theoretically, to be sure, it was never away. It continued to put on seasons each year in Washington, D.C., and New York City, and on tour across the country. But something was slipping away during the decade when Mikhail Baryshnikov was artistic director, and that something is now fully back in place in Kevin McKenzie’s third year at the helm.

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Linda Bridges

Ms. Bridges is the former editor-at-large of National Review.

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AMERICAN Ballet Theatre is back!

Theoretically, to be sure, it was never away. It continued to put on seasons each year in Washington, D.C., and New York City, and on tour across the country. But something was slipping away during the decade when Mikhail Baryshnikov was artistic director, and that something is now fully back in place in Kevin McKenzie’s third year at the helm.